Decades of impunity, for the Israeli regime as well as its criminal soldiers, has led us to this point.

In one video, an Israeli soldier dressed in a dinosaur costume loads artillery shells into a tank and dances as the shells are fired in the direction of Gaza. In another video, a soldier is filmed dedicating an explosion to his two-year-old daughter for her birthday. Seconds later, a Palestinian residential building behind him is blown up. Other videos show Israeli soldiers setting alight Palestinian food supplies during a starvation campaign and mocking stripped, rounded-up and blindfolded Palestinian civilians.

And genocidal intent has never been so blatantly expressed by both soldiers and political leaders.

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    “The IDF has taken action and will continue acting to identify misconduct and behavior that does not align with the expected morals and values of IDF soldiers,” it said in a statement sent to CNN.

    The problem is, this kind of behavior aligns perfectly with:

    In one video, a soldier is seen going through a woman’s wardrobe, including her underwear, making derogatory, sexist remarks about Arab women.

    A photo shared online shows a soldier standing next to a Hebrew sign spraypainted on a wall in Gaza that says: “Instead of erasing graffiti, let us erase Gaza.”

    The Israeli soldier looks directly into the camera, then turns around and sets a pile of food supplies on fire. “We turn on the light against this dark place and burn it until there is no trace of this whole place,” he says as another soldier fuels the flame.

    I couldn’t be more disgusted with where my tax dollars are going.

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      Hi Budda,

      The beahviour described in

      In one video, a soldier is seen going through a woman’s wardrobe, including her underwear, making derogatory, sexist remarks about Arab women.

      Is not ‘will be punished’. It has been punished.

      Re: >A photo shared online shows a soldier standing next to a Hebrew sign spraypainted on a wall in Gaza that says: “Instead of erasing graffiti, let us erase Gaza.”>

      Can you blame the Israelis? It withdrew from Gaza, offered it to Egypt (which refused) and discontinued contact, while supplying it with water and electricity, for free. What other country will do that? This action led to over 1,400 Israeli butcherd, over 9,000 rockets into Israeli towns, and that is only during the last 100 days.

      The behaviour in >The Israeli soldier looks directly into the camera, then turns around and sets a pile of food supplies on fire. “We turn on the light against this dark place and burn it until there is no trace of this whole place,” he says as another soldier fuels the flame.>

      Led to an indictment in a military court. This will be handled quickly.

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    The same reason a bunch of geniuses livestreamed themselves breaking into the Capitol and chanting about all the politicians they wanted to lynch. Glorification is a hell of a drug

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    What baffles me the most is that of all people on Earth, THE Israelis are the ones doing this. After what happened before and during WW2, one would assume Israelis would do everything against all the attempts of genocide. But then… this?

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      Regressives the world over are not creative. They do what they do because they believe others will do it. They’re bullies because they were bullied, and they don’t want to be the victim, so they erroneously believe that means they have to strike first.

      They never stop to think, “What if the world weren’t shit? What can I do to make it better?” They accept as a fact that it is shit, and they believe the only way to come out ahead is to step on someone else.

      When you get several of these people/groups pointing at each other, it becomes an infinite cycle.

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      Friendly reminder that all Jewish people are aware at a young age they are “G-d’s chosen people”. I’m sure there are many that take it far more seriously than a throw away expression.

      Also worth noting for many there is no separation between the state, the people and the religion.

      It’s extremely complex.

      Source - ex is Jewish and I have 3 kids that are Jewish in the eyes of G-d.

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      Why would you assume that? That sounds really racist and is definitely naive of you.

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        How on Earth is that racist? LOL. This whole “I don’t like it so it must be racist” thinking is trash of this age.

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          You are assuming that all people of a country (Israelis) have some kind of inherent “anti-genocide” quality that is absent from other people.

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            No. I assume that most Israelis either have or know someone who lost their relatives during WW2. And even if it wasn’t most it’d definitely be more than in other countries. And with that heritage and history I would feel like complete dickhead doing anything that’s happening now. Even if it’s just a retaliation to terrorist attack, there’s reaction and reaction

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    I wonder why AlJazeera doesn’t check their facts, and why the poster doesn’t either. The photo is real but not at all linked to the the tanks firing at Gaza. I don’t presonally know about the food supplies (but I doubt that report) but the soldiers did not mock the “civilians” . If anyone know anything about Israel is that it has the most moral military in the world.

    What you did see, is POW hamas fighters, after being caught or surrendering, being stripped to make sure they do not carry explosives underneath their clothing (interesting that you usually hear about Arabs doing so, eh?).

    Genocidal intent my backside. No country in the world would be this careful handling civilians while seeking to find its kidnapped, tortured and raped people, or the bodies of the hostages shot by both hamas and by “the not involved” gazans. The US or the UK, for example, if they had a solider missing (see “Mosul”) would flatten the area, killing even the dogs.

    Two final words: “Don’t start nuthin’, there won’t be nuthin’” and “Bring them home” will certainly hasten the end of the current campaign.